And I’m surprised that I care about them, and I’m surprised at how moved I’ve become’.” “And then I read the script and I went, ‘Oh I really care about these characters. I got this pitch which was, ‘Do you want to do this film about the Sutton Hoo find?’ And I thought to myself, ‘That feels really dry and it’s not going to be particularly compelling.’ “But it reminded me of my own reaction to the script. This is huge, how is this happening?’” he recalls. A friend sent me a message saying, ‘Dude, you’re No.
1 in the UK on the second day it was out. NetflixĮven so, its Europe-based Australian director, Simon Stone, is both surprised and unsurprised at the huge audience interest. Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan star in The Dig. It’s an intriguing personal drama, and its discovery upended the prevailing understanding of Anglo-Saxon culture and British history. It’s ostensibly a film about a group of men in three-piece suits with trowels and teaspoons, excavating the Anglo-Saxon burial site of Sutton Hoo in a rustic corner of 1930s prewar England.īut it turns out that there’s a lot more to the (lightly fictionalised) story of how Sutton Hoo came to be uncovered. The Dig doesn’t sound much like a box-office barnstormer. Among the usual rota of true-crime, teen flicks and big-budget US releases was an unexpected, improbable sleeper hit. Something slightly strange happened this past month on Netflix’s list of the top 10 most-watched films in Australia, Britain and beyond.
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